school me on making bubble

[herbivore21]

How do I like this post more than once?!?!?



I absolutely love inspiring folks like yourself!!

Hahahaha.... It truly puts a smile on my face.

It almost never fails, I post a few pics and describe my history with Concentate, and how Bubble or Mechanically Separated Resin Glands changed my life...

And I get at least a few complete "Converts"

Isn't that first hit of self-made bubble just literally mind-blowing?!?

I also love the fact you knew you were looking at Temple Balls!!
Not too many folks are familiar with that terminology nowadays.

And....
Yes bro, you can reach 10%, but.. That is going to include your contaminate to create Rosin in addition to the money bags...which could bring you closer to 12-15%

I find that I get around 5-8% of 4-5 star melt . With the total return being around 10-12%, sometimes up to 15% including the Rosin sourced from the contaminate bags.

This is exactly why I do what I do!!

Thank you Brother herb!!

I likewise wish I could like this post more than once my friend! You have been absolutely exceptional in your assistance here, I have known for a long time (in fact before you graced us here with your much-welcomed presence ) that high end bubble and dry sift and derivatives thereof were what I wanted to be dealing with for my meds, not flowers.

Temple balls are something I knew of from the old stoners who I first learned the basics of flower-burning from, I've only really ever seen pictures sadly but man those of yours look so particularly enticing!

I've always believed that whilst solvents are necessary for some practices (namely dewaxing/removal of fats), that they should be used in the most minimal way possible, only where there is no alternative. Now I can finally do this

This thread is great stuff, it really sounds from what you say like I'll end up getting better overall yields than ever combining the bubble tek/rosin with some tricks I have learned/developed myself.

I live in the dark continent for cannabis sourcing and as such, have had to master the art of getting absolutely EVERYTHING out of the starting material, in the best possible quality of course because I'm a dab snob.

I can't believe I didn't do this sooner though, like you say, that first bubble hit from your own material is life changing. It felt like dabbing for the first time, or before that, smoking for the first time

Thanks so much for your help bro!

 

[NorVape]

May I ask, do you use traditional Nepalese hand rubbing techniques, or do you have your own way of hand pressing?

As some one who grew up on pressed import hash the thought of making and pressing my own hash evokes feelings in my I find hard to describe in English, but it would be something about a circle closing

Anyways, your posts are truly inspiring @Hashtag46&2

 

[Hashtag46&2]

May I ask, do you use traditional Nepalese hand rubbing techniques, or do you have your own way of hand pressing?

As some one who grew up on pressed import hash the thought of making and pressing my own hash evokes feelings in my I find hard to describe in English, but it would be something about a circle closing

Anyways, your posts are truly inspiring @Hashtag46&2

Thank you and everyone for the kind words.

I use both traditional hand-pressed Hashish technique with individual glands, and creating a mass of resin.

It takes roughly a half hour to 45 minutes to "work" the Hash..

During the working, you can literally smell the Terps changing into a more rich, spicy like profile.

However, I have yet to try to make what they call Charas.
A process in which the farmers rub the stalk and or flowers while they are still growing with their hands, then proceed by peeling the resulting resin from their palms.

Thank you @herbivore21 for creating this thread!!

Hash Class is in

 

[herbivore21]

Thank you and everyone for the kind words.

I use both traditional hand-pressed Hashish technique with individual glands, and creating a mass of resin.

It takes roughly a half hour to 45 minutes to "work" the Hash..

During the working, you can literally smell the Terps changing into a more rich, spicy like profile.

However, I have yet to try to make what they call Charas.
A process in which the farmers rub the stalk and or flowers while they are still growing with their hands, then proceed by peeling the resulting resin from their palms.

Thank you @herbivore21 for creating this thread!!

Hash Class is in

A pleasure my brother! It's been so great interacting with you around these parts, you came along at just the right time as I'm sure almost nobody else here is so equipped to assist in hashmaking!

Man that spiciness! Let me tell you this THC Bomb bubble has been curing for 1.5 years now and it seriously smells/tastes like a spice you would put on your food (I don't really do edibles though lol).

I'd love to check out charas too, I knew a Nepali man who used to rave about this stuff Sadly I believe I will have to travel to try this.

I can't wait to have enough hash to make into my own temple balls Pics will ensue when I have produced a decent yield lol

EDIT: Ok so I finally finished with my 90 micron bag. It lasted me 3 days of rosin dabs and squished 90% total back to me. Then, the rosin pucks were put into my dnail flower adapter at 788f and gave me about as much clouds as a bowl of high end flowers would! Was delicious down to the very last puff of the rosin chips in the flower adapter (By the way every one, seriously get yourself a flower adapter or e-nano or similar for rosin chips, they are amazing!) too! Love how solventless techs leave the flavor whole!

I just finished microplaning my 73 micron material onto PTFE sheet in a cardboard box (moisture that boils into the air above can wick into cardboard, but the material sure won't!).

I used a razor blade on my blotting screens in the freezer all frozen up to very lightly scrape the last trichs stuck to the screens. Works great! I love how my experience with solvent techs has given me an intuitive understanding of what works when dealing with mmj/extracts more broadly in these situations!

Of course, all material was inspected under 60x magnification prior to the squish (which will happen in a few hours). My microplane has a plastic handle and a few very fine red particulates came off onto the edge of my material. That stuff would have been red goo in my dabs potentially if I had not done this final inspection.

Get all up close and personal with your material people. Especially if it is your medicine. It behooves us all to know what we're putting into ourselves. Don't take anything for granted about your tek, tools and methods!

Edit Edit: Squished the 73 stuff for the first time. It juiced big time! Clearer shatter than the 90 gave me. Delicious in a similar kind of way to the 90 as well Man I can't wait to have a reasonable amount of this to squoosh! lol

 

[VapourHaze]

May I ask, do you use traditional Nepalese hand rubbing techniques, or do you have your own way of hand pressing?

As some one who grew up on pressed import hash the thought of making and pressing my own hash evokes feelings in my I find hard to describe in English, but it would be something about a circle closing

Anyways, your posts are truly inspiring @Hashtag46&2

Hey norvape, have you got the book ' Hashish' a friend of mine had it ... you would love it!

 

[NorVape]

I've heard so much about that book, I'll have to put it on my xmas wishlist

Interesting to hear about how pressing and curing hash turns it spicy.

Good hashish over here has always been spicy, and the paranoid amongst us have used that as evidence of adulteration.

I've always felt that it's been a good thing.

And also when I squish the hash, the rosin taste more floral again.

Hash is so fascinating!

 

[VapourHaze]

Yes the heat and pressure changes the aroma. You should check out a guy called frenchy cannoli ... he is on youtube .. he makes awesome bubble and then presses it old school style. I think you would appreciate his methods! Cheers

 

[herbivore21]

Lol this really is becoming the FC hash thread isn't it! This is great, there is frequently a lot less info on this topic to be found online than other concentrates!

I think rosin is gonna be responsible/perhaps already has been responsible for a resurgence in hash teks.

 

[Hashtag46&2]

Mr. Frenchy Cannoli is an amazing artisan of Hashish, and the epitome of what we call the Hashishin..

Taught me the 3 bag tech I spoke of a bit earlier in this thread.

He happens to be one of my mentors, and the inspiration for me to begin pressing my Hash, he is also one of the only Hashers that promotes/employees a hybrid of ancient Hashish production with some modern day techniques.

Through numerous PMs, we've discussed the Frozen Tech, he is the one who pointed out that in the thousands of years of Hashish production, freezing resin glands is the exact opposite in the history of Hash making.
He is all about "Pressing to Activate " via heat and natural Decarboxylation through a long cure of pressed resins.

His "hybrid " version of Hash involves taking the trimmings directly from the plant, straight into the washing machine, drying thoroughly, press with heat, then curing the pressed hash.

He presses with a wine bottle that has hot water fresh from boiling inside.. The loose hash is contained in a Ziplock...



Absolutely a pleasure to converse with.

 

[NorVape]

All his videos seems to be deleted

 

[Hashtag46&2]

All his videos seems to be deleted

Cant find his workshop videos either...

But....

Here is an interview...

Guess who's picture is on the front?

They show this same pic for quite some time, especially at about 20ish minutes in.

This was my first Cannoli, that I modified to look like a "Rose of Gratuity "


I'm a bit at a loss on what I should do here?!?

This is the first I've seen of this... We are very close friends, but I was never asked if they could use my images.

I suppose I'll accept it as a HUGE COMPLIMENT

 

[VapourHaze]

Cant find his workshop videos either...

But....

Here is an interview...

Guess who's picture is on the front?

They show this same pic for quite some time, especially at about 20ish minutes in.

This was my first Cannoli, that I modified to look like a "Rose of Gratuity "


I'm a bit at a loss on what I should do here?!?

This is the first I've seen of this... We are very close friends, but I was never asked if they could use my images.

I suppose I'll accept it as a HUGE COMPLIMENT

Nice a flattering compliment indeed! ... that cannoli looks absolutely incredible!! Do send him our regards from over here on FC.

 

[tepictoton]

Have been eating this thread like crazy...

One thing...

after washing the material with water and ice, it seems a decent part is still present in the material. What is the best way to get that last bit out? I guess, seeing this thread is more or less about getting these things out without the use of any solvent, using it for cooking purposes might do that trick?

If one would use this, is there anything known about the effects of these 'second wash' edibles? I can imagine for instance that the water wash takes out a bigger part of for instance the water soluble compounds, leaving behind a higher percentage of for instance thc in this mix then originally found in the plant itself?

So, if one would make edibles from the plant straight up, would this differentiate from edibles made from the same material after a water wash?

Keep it coming, this has been by far the most revealing thread in a long time... I do wonder, water seems to be counter logical, seeing the goods we are looking for a very poorly soluble into water...what about the returns with dry sifting? Are we talking even lower returns?

And yes, those temple balls look very very nice. Must have been almost 20years ago when I last encountered them. When they broke it open, and this creamy stuff came oozing out, at first I was like shit something went wrong here...yeah, I did LOL...nice to see these things surface here.

Thank you all for sharing your knowledge, I know sometimes that is not so easy, especially if you have invested years of your own time and work into it. Thank you

 

[420engineer]

I'm making a batch of 'bubble in the morning; I'll post pics of the results

 

[herbivore21]

So I did the second wash (15 mins in the bubblenow, more + colder water this time with plenty of ice still).

Got next to nothing out of it, probably twice the yield from last time (Maybe 1.5g - excluding 2 contaminant bags - return from 2oz for a speculative total of 2.4g total yield from non contaminant bags). Also, the biggest yields were in the 73/45 bags (and tellingly, a good bit of headies even in the 25!). These are immature resin heads to be sure... Damn!

I will check on the material after it's frozen up again to see if it is full of smell still. It seems more spent than before though...

Had a proper pump sprayer this time, I wonder if I have full melt from the money bags this time? Time will tell, stay tuned.

 

[herbivore21]

Apologies for double post, edit time expired!

Ok so I smelled the refrozen 2 x bubble washed material. Still has a good bit of the skunk smell left there, fainter than before for sure though. Took out a bowl's worth of frozen flower and stuck it in my flower adapter and hit it for a while to heat off the ton of ice/water left behind. It ended up giving whitewall after about 6 hits to dry the material, vaped it til dark brown and cashed the bowl. Tasted fantastic! Water really adds something to this strain (Cluster Bomb).

The washed material does not really have any visible trichs to the naked eye. I will check it out under 60x magnification later to see if they're hiding. The flowers are very dense too (true to the strain name), so I wonder if there is resin caught in too much vegetative material (ie big dense buds) to really get beaten out of the bud in the wash? I may have had slightly too much water in this wash too, if that could be relevant.

@Hashtag46&2 any ideas bro?

 

[davesmith]

I dry mine on cardboard before pressing into balls to cure

 

[herbivore21]

Just for an update, so I squished the 73 micron material (or maybe 45, both are super white!) and got myself a beautiful but way too shattery to easily collect set of more white than pale yellow transparent crystals - enough for one big dab. I proceeded to do the honors, for science and had the tastiest dab I've ever had again! I actually think I probably made full melt and am pressing it lol, I should try just dunking it on the nail!

I need to get off my ass and start drying the rest of this material so I can do a great big multi dab producing squish of crystal clear goodness to show you guys - might be the main benefit of running immature nugs - crystal clear rosin shards!

 

[Hashtag46&2]

Have been eating this thread like crazy...

Thank you kindly, I'm absolutely elated that I'm able to bring forth some resources for folks like the members here.

I have put many hours of reading, and digging, connecting with people like Frenchy Cannoli, the world of Concentate nowadays is unfortunately muddled with some intentional misinformation. This is all about Profiteering.

How many people have followed one of the top Hash tutorials, to find their results to be nowhere near what the tutorial portrayed?

The thing is, once one dials in their Ice Water Extraction to perfection, greed rears its ugly head.

The idea being,....

" if I teach these guys my tek, the consumer can produce their own epic hash, and I'll lose out on lots of sales."

My goal is to expose these secrets, so EVERYONE can experience the bliss held in Mechanically Separated Resin Glands.

One thing...

after washing the material with water and ice, it seems a decent part is still present in the material. What is the best way to get that last bit out? I guess, seeing this thread is more or less about getting these things out without the use of any solvent, using it for cooking purposes might do that trick?

This is why I wash my material at least 4-5 times, and I've gone as high as 9 washes.
But, yes, if you were to do a VERY gentle spin or two, the material could be dried out to make some edibles.

I'd recommend a tincture type of oral.. Green Dragon specifically.

If one would use this, is there anything known about the effects of these 'second wash' edibles? I can imagine for instance that the water wash takes out a bigger part of for instance the water soluble compounds, leaving behind a higher percentage of for instance thc in this mix then originally found in the plant itself?

So, if one would make edibles from the plant straight up, would this differentiate from edibles made from the same material after a water wash?

Actually the large majority of THC will be extracted in the first and second washes.
100% of the Delta-9 THC (THC-A if using fresh material) is found in the glandular head. The bigger/riper head's having a higher content of Delta-9 THC will fall/sink to the bottom first, due to the oils inside.

I personally spin until I m getting next to nothing in my catch bags/ or my hash starts looking green in color, *this is a sign of overworked, very aggressive agitation **

So, after the series of spins, I use the material as compost for the next grow.

So, the difference between making edibles straight from the unadulterated plant material and making edibles from lightly worked material will be less potent, the levels of potency is contingent upon how much resin/Trichomes remains in the washed material.

My suggestion is to use the contaminate from the 200,190 and depending on Trichome size the 160 to make the edibles .

But, hold on tight, as its one hell of a ride.

Keep it coming, this has been by far the most revealing thread in a long time... I do wonder, water seems to be counter logical, seeing the goods we are looking for a very poorly soluble into water...what about the returns with dry sifting? Are we talking even lower returns?

The resin glands contain 99% of the medical/psychoactive goodies, the fact that the Trichome is non-soluble in water is what we want, so they can sink and rest atop its respective mesh.

And indeed, pure dry sift at 99.99% pure resin glands, yield are extremely low, when I say low.. I'm talking 1-3% return.

I will say... It totally worth it though... One single hit of 99% will change your life, and make you question "Where has this been all my life!?!?"

And yes, those temple balls look very very nice. Must have been almost 20years ago when I last encountered them. When they broke it open, and this creamy stuff came oozing out, at first I was like shit something went wrong here...yeah, I did LOL...nice to see these things surface here.

Mmmmmm, Hashish cream ... My god!!! There is truly something magical about it.

Thank you all for sharing your knowledge, I know sometimes that is not so easy, especially if you have invested years of your own time and work into it. Thank you

Thank you very very much, and your gratitude is why I share what I share.

A pleasure meeting you

Apologies for double post, edit time expired!

Ok so I smelled the refrozen 2 x bubble washed material. Still has a good bit of the skunk smell left there, fainter than before for sure though. Took out a bowl's worth of frozen flower and stuck it in my flower adapter and hit it for a while to heat off the ton of ice/water left behind. It ended up giving whitewall after about 6 hits to dry the material, vaped it til dark brown and cashed the bowl. Tasted fantastic! Water really adds something to this strain (Cluster Bomb).

The washed material does not really have any visible trichs to the naked eye. I will check it out under 60x magnification later to see if they're hiding. The flowers are very dense too (true to the strain name), so I wonder if there is resin caught in too much vegetative material (ie big dense buds) to really get beaten out of the bud in the wash? I may have had slightly too much water in this wash too, if that could be relevant.

@Hashtag46&2 any ideas bro?

Sup brother herb!

When your material is all flowers, it important to get the material to dry prior to extraction, wet/fresh and frozen flowers will hold onto those Heads for dear life.

If it's possible, trim is much better suited for Ice water extraction.
Reason being, trim has more Capitate Heads per square centimeter compared to flowers, which has a larger ratio of Sessile stalks.

^^hope that makes sense, I'm on an edible ride at the moment.

This is why fresh frozen runs give very unforgiving yields, the Trichomes do not want to fall.

Especially with rock like dense buds, these should be broken up gently by hand while doing the breaking up over your extraction bucket as to not loose any heads.

Please keep the questions coming, I want the world to know the heavenly bliss of isolated glandular heads.

Oh, and the water thing makes sense.

Many old school growers use a technique known as Water Curing for their Flowers , I've heard the taste is great.

 

[420engineer]

mine is drying out now, I did a long way yesterday, so will only be doing one round with it - can't wait to try this bit as it is from about 9 varieties, and cured for 4 months before 'hashing

 

[herbivore21]

Thank you kindly, I'm absolutely elated that I'm able to bring forth some resources for folks like the members here.

I have put many hours of reading, and digging, connecting with people like Frenchy Cannoli, the world of Concentate nowadays is unfortunately muddled with some intentional misinformation. This is all about Profiteering.

How many people have followed one of the top Hash tutorials, to find their results to be nowhere near what the tutorial portrayed?

The thing is, once one dials in their Ice Water Extraction to perfection, greed rears its ugly head.

The idea being,....

" if I teach these guys my tek, the consumer can produce their own epic hash, and I'll lose out on lots of sales."

My goal is to expose these secrets, so EVERYONE can experience the bliss held in Mechanically Separated Resin Glands.





This is why I wash my material at least 4-5 times, and I've gone as high as 9 washes.
But, yes, if you were to do a VERY gentle spin or two, the material could be dried out to make some edibles.

I'd recommend a tincture type of oral.. Green Dragon specifically.



Actually the large majority of THC will be extracted in the first and second washes.
100% of the Delta-9 THC (THC-A if using fresh material) is found in the glandular head. The bigger/riper head's having a higher content of Delta-9 THC will fall/sink to the bottom first, due to the oils inside.

I personally spin until I m getting next to nothing in my catch bags/ or my hash starts looking green in color, *this is a sign of overworked, very aggressive agitation **

So, after the series of spins, I use the material as compost for the next grow.

So, the difference between making edibles straight from the unadulterated plant material and making edibles from lightly worked material will be less potent, the levels of potency is contingent upon how much resin/Trichomes remains in the washed material.

My suggestion is to use the contaminate from the 200,190 and depending on Trichome size the 160 to make the edibles .

But, hold on tight, as its one hell of a ride.



The resin glands contain 99% of the medical/psychoactive goodies, the fact that the Trichome is non-soluble in water is what we want, so they can sink and rest atop its respective mesh.

And indeed, pure dry sift at 99.99% pure resin glands, yield are extremely low, when I say low.. I'm talking 1-3% return.

I will say... It totally worth it though... One single hit of 99% will change your life, and make you question "Where has this been all my life!?!?"



Mmmmmm, Hashish cream ... My god!!! There is truly something magical about it.


Thank you very very much, and your gratitude is why I share what I share.

A pleasure meeting you


Sup brother herb!

When your material is all flowers, it important to get the material to dry prior to extraction, wet/fresh and frozen flowers will hold onto those Heads for dear life.

If it's possible, trim is much better suited for Ice water extraction.
Reason being, trim has more Capitate Heads per square centimeter compared to flowers, which has a larger ratio of Sessile stalks.

^^hope that makes sense, I'm on an edible ride at the moment.

This is why fresh frozen runs give very unforgiving yields, the Trichomes do not want to fall.

Especially with rock like dense buds, these should be broken up gently by hand while doing the breaking up over your extraction bucket as to not loose any heads.

Please keep the questions coming, I want the world to know the heavenly bliss of isolated glandular heads.

Oh, and the water thing makes sense.

Many old school growers use a technique known as Water Curing for their Flowers , I've heard the taste is great.

Hey brother, I definitely did not break the flowers up at all (this is sacrilege for solvent extraction artists like myself), this could be a major factor - is it best to break them up? These flowers were actually not quite fresh frozen, they were dried til stems were frangible and then frozen. Just squished one of my latest tiny bits of either 73u or 45u (can't remember, both are super white) got some almost white pale yellow super crystalline fly every type rosin shatter - this is the nicest color material I've ever gotten out of this strain! I love water extraction for the initial extraction! Best taste ever hands down.

This tek is worth it for head stash alone, even if the returns I'm getting just now really are pretty dreadful. I'll spin this material a 3rd time though because I'm sure there's more goodness in there

I really need to be able to start getting trim I think, and that is generally fucking impossible around these parts

For now, I guess that kind of rosin shatter will have to do...

Fuck I need a macro camera!

 

[NorVape]

Trim is better?!?

*starts running through the burner phone contact list*

Seriously, this thread is the answer to some of my prayers

 

[herbivore21]

Trim is better?!?

*starts running through the burner phone contact list*

Seriously, this thread is the answer to some of my prayers

Man, I am so jealous of you being able to find trim, seriously good stuff! I'm gonna have to get out to Scandinavia one of these days!

Ok so I just dabbed a good sized one of the crystal clear shards I showed above. This stuff is just so much tastier than anything I've ever had. I love water as an extraction medium and I'm gonna push on making small amounts of bubble regardless of the low yields (although I'm sure they'll increase drastically with honing of my technique), because it is seriously nature's gift to those of us with insomnia and to the connoisseur, and I'm both of those guys! The equal nicest shatter (only other thing in the same league was a fresh frozen/live resin absolute from the same material) I ever made was with a hair straightener and some wonderful 4 star bubble dutifully made by yours truly. A hair straightener. lol

High quality bubble is the source of so many incredible dabs, even if you can't get most/all of your bubble to fully melt.

Bubble is fantastic for winterizing in ethanol, as it requires so much less ethanol than nugs which is a ridiculous proposition in terms of added expense to make the equivalent amounts of shatter lol. It is also obviously great for making amazing rosin if you don't wanna try your hand at solvents (and for most people, I advise staying away from solvent teks), as you guys have seen above, you can still get your pretty crystals to show off to your buddies without ever touching anything that could explode lol.

I had a chance to smell the refrozen buds again after freezing right up and they still smell incredible and I can see some visible trichs on some of them on closer inspection under 60x.

I think my problem is the nature of this strain and how I ran it. It has very dense tough buds (which is actually something that grabs your attention when you see the bud, aside from the magnificent smell - wonderful big thick dense nugs and a lot of them) that seem to take a massive beating to get the trichs off. That being said, I don't think I helped myself by running the whole branches with nugs not even separated from the main stems let alone broken up at all!

I am starting to consider now if I probably should have broken them up a bit before running them in the first place... @Hashtag46&2 any sense in this train of thought brother?

 

[Hashtag46&2]

I think my problem is the nature of this strain and how I ran it. It has very dense tough buds (which is actually something that grabs your attention when you see the bud, aside from the magnificent smell - wonderful big thick dense nugs and a lot of them) that seem to take a massive beating to get the trichs off. That being said, I don't think I helped myself by running the whole branches with nugs not even separated from the main stems let alone broken up at all!

I am starting to consider now if I probably should have broken them up a bit before running them in the first place... @Hashtag46&2 any sense in this train of thought brother?

Brother herb, I am elated to say the least that you have seen and now experienced the wonders that are held within the Glandular Heads of this Sacred Plant.

After running BHO for nearly 2 years, and a full year of that was a batch every 3 days, back then it was blast, purge for 72 hours, and repeat.

After I made that first batch of Bubble, it made me cry inside a little... All those Trichomes, dissolved with a solvent...

Nooooooooo!!! Lol.


Yes, herb... You gotta break those flowers up to open up the surface area to expose the Trichomes that are locked up in the inner structure.

I too did the same thing on my first run.. Running oil, I would NEVER break up the buds. But with any sieving techniques, whether water or dry sieving, it is essential to open the surface area to get the maximum yield.

Wear some Nitrile gloves, and gently break the buds up over the work bag, reducing the loss of Trichomes when breaking up.

You would not believe just how fragile they are, for example, when I take the macro pics that I've posted in the My Stash thread.. I'm usually in an area where the light really shows everything.

When I go to open up a flower to take a "gut shot" picture...

Trichomes go "poof" into the air.

I think you probably have quite a bit of hash to gather, locked up in those dense buds.
Let me know how it goes bro!

 

[herbivore21]

Brother herb, I am elated to say the least that you have seen and now experienced the wonders that are held within the Glandular Heads of this Sacred Plant.

After running BHO for nearly 2 years, and a full year of that was a batch every 3 days, back then it was blast, purge for 72 hours, and repeat.

After I made that first batch of Bubble, it made me cry inside a little... All those Trichomes, dissolved with a solvent...

Nooooooooo!!! Lol.


Yes, herb... You gotta break those flowers up to open up the surface area to expose the Trichomes that are locked up in the inner structure.

I too did the same thing on my first run.. Running oil, I would NEVER break up the buds. But with any sieving techniques, whether water or dry sieving, it is essential to open the surface area to get the maximum yield.

Wear some Nitrile gloves, and gently break the buds up over the work bag, reducing the loss of Trichomes when breaking up.

You would not believe just how fragile they are, for example, when I take the macro pics that I've posted in the My Stash thread.. I'm usually in an area where the light really shows everything.

When I go to open up a flower to take a "gut shot" picture...

Trichomes go "poof" into the air.

I think you probably have quite a bit of hash to gather, locked up in those dense buds.
Let me know how it goes bro!

Lol I knew it! I knew breaking up the buds, whilst sacrilege with solvents is a must with bubble. Ah well, I will do a third wash this time breaking them up! Hopefully you're right, but I'd say there's definitely more headies to collect here as you say - these buds are super tough and dense lol

Man, I never used BHO/tane due to mystery oil, mercaptans and fire/explosion risk. I only think solvents are justified for dewaxing now. I'd love a residual solvent testing setup because honestly, it pains me to risk losing terps by dewaxing this kind of quality of bubble lol but I need dewaxing for my daytime medicine lol

Still, there is undeniably a different flavor profile when water is used (and it is such a great tasting one!) with this strain. Wow! I hope you are right about there being more heads to collect from this material, even the tiny amounts I've had have been such a treat!

I got nitrile gloves already bro, aren't they the best for extraction purposes? Always used them since they are a solvent extractors dream - reclaimable gloves! lol